Shows
Arrested DevOpsAI, Ethics, and Empathy With Kat MorganWe’ve all been there: burning out on volatile tech jobs, tangled in impossible systems, and wondering what our work actually means. On this episode of Arrested DevOps, Matty Stratton sits down with Kat Morgan for a heartfelt, funny, and sharply observant conversation about AI: what it helps with, what it hurts, and how we navigate all of that as humans in tech.
They dive deep into how large language models (LLMs) both assist and frustrate us, the ethics of working with machines trained on the labor of others, and why staying kind—to the robots and to o...2025-06-0340 min
Arrested DevOpsPlatform Engineering Goes to Flavortown With Matt Kurtiz
Arrested DevOps - DevOps With Better Marketing with Pete Cheslock
Arrested DevOps - Platform Engineering with Daniel Bryant
Arrested DevOps - Platforms with Kelsey Hightower and Andrew Clay Shafer
Lean Enterprise
The Future of Ops Is Platform Engineering
Charity’s talk from devopsdays NYC
Jess Kerr’s blog that Matt mentioned
Cargo Cult Science
2023-10-0546 min
Arrested DevOpsCloud Native Security With Michael Isbitski
Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report
Pushing Left With Tanya Janca (ADO epsiode)
Shifting Left Securely (Matt’s talk)
DevOps World is back for 2023, and you won’t want to miss out on this one-of-a-kind event! This year’s program is packed with exclusive insights, immersive workshops, and unparalleled networking opportunities taking place across multiple cities in the US, UK, and Asia. Elevate your DevOps game and register using the following links: NYC area, Chicago, Silicon Valley, Singapore, and London.
2023-07-2755 min
The TechEd PodcastPower Solutions and a Commitment to Win - Steve Andrews, Briggs & Stratton President & CEO"It's fulfilling to be manufacturing the products that people want to get work done, as we say. Our people take pride in the products we produce. It's meaningful work...The Briggs & Stratton brand is a legendary brand....The company is thriving and embracing new technologies and processes. Our team members are going to have a tremendous amount of growth and development opportunities. And let's face it, everybody likes being part of a winning team."-Steve Andrews, President & Chief Executive Officer of Briggs & StrattonBriggs & Stratton is an iconic brand known...2022-07-0430 min
Quiche-AnonBreakfast at Tiffany’s Is Getting Horny on MainAre you ready for Hot Kelli Summer? As you prepare, listen as we investigate the mysterious circumstances of Marilyn Monroe's death - with a brief stopover to learn both Matt and Kelli's first online screen names. Peach your cream and make sure your fox is properly spooky for another episode of Quiche-Anon!2021-05-1249 min
Quiche-AnonThe Merovingian Dynasty Are Investing in GameStopSupporting Links
The Real Reason Why Mary Magdalene is Such a Controversial Figure
Was Mary Magdalene Wife of Jesus? Was Mary Magdalene a Prostitute?
Wikipedia on The Holy Grail
Were Crusader Knights Really Protecting the Cup of Christ
Wikipedia on The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail
Wikipedia on the Virgin Birth of Jesus
DevOps Party Games (Matt’s streaming game show)
@chicanoeats on Instagram
Tweets mentioned in the show
"I don't what a kubernetes is, but every time one of you mentions it on twitter, I'm like 'YEAH!'" - @allaboutkelli— matty stratton 🇺🇦 💜 (@mattstratton...2021-02-1151 min
Arrested DevOpsThe Six Plots of Tech TwitterSources differ on where this started, but Kurt Vonnegut posited that there are basically six story types. Matt wondered if there was similarly only six stories that are told on tech Twitter. Guests Sasha Rosenbaum, Kat Cosgrove, Quintessence Anx, Aaron Aldrich, and Jeremy Meiss dig into this as well as discuss the ups and downs of tech Twitter culture.2021-01-251h 00
Quiche-AnonThe Body Doubles Have WingsSupporting links
Celebrity conspiracy theories: From the Katy Perry-JonBenét Ramsey rumor to Elvis in ‘Home Alone’
New World University: Katy Perry is JonBenét Ramsey
Conspiracy Theorists Claim Katy Perry is Actually JonBenet Ramsey, Even Though She’s Obviously Not (Billboard)
Katy Perry Could Conceivably be JonBenét Ramsey (YouTube)
The Beatles - A Day in The Life: November 9, 1966
Paul is dead (Wikipedia)
The Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory returns (BBC)
Conspiracy: Fact or Fiction | Avril Lavigne’s Lookalike
Now John Travolta Has Old-Timey Photographic Evidence That He’s A Vampire
Nicolas Cage and John Travolta (Snopes)
Grand Traverse Pie...2020-11-2443 min
Arrested DevOpsBreaking Down Gates With Tim Banks
Texas Chili Parlor in Austin
Chili John’s - the chili place Matt’s friend brought him to in California
Gatekeeping and the DevOps Revolution: We Haven’t Always Known Everything - Kat Cosgrove at All Day DevOps 2020
Lending Privilege - Anjuan Simmons
levels.fyi/
Shout-out to Matt’s friend Marcelo for the link for Chili John’s (and for taking Matt there so many years ago)
2020-11-1750 min
Quiche-AnonDenver Airport OmeletThe first episode! Kelli and Matt don’t know what they are doing, but we have fun digging into the Denver Airport conspiracies anyway.
links and stuff
Something Is Rotten In the Denver Airport
The definitive guide to Denver International Airport’s biggest conspiracy theories
Doomsday Bunkers, Illuminati, and the Apocalypse: 5 Wild Conspiracy Theories About Denver International Airport
Denver International Airport Conspiracy Theories and the Surrounding Facts
The Denver Omelet (recipe)
2020-11-1148 min
Arrested DevOpsDevopsdays Chicago 2020
Matt’s blog post about “howto”
Rich Burroughs’s wrapup post
https://matty.wtf/yak-wtf
https://twitter.com/SoSplush
Love, Yaktually video
Recording of the event livestream
2020-11-091h 07
Arrested DevOpsHelm Community With Matt Farina, Karen Chu, and Matt Butcher
Helm.sh
Celebrating Helm’s CNCF Graduation
CNCF announces Helm graduation
An Introduction to Helm - Matt Farina & Josh Dolitsky
Phippy and Friends
Keynote: Phippy Goes to the Zoo: A Kubernetes Story - Matt Butcher & Karen Chu - KubeCon North America 2018
Seven Hard Truths About Open Source Community
Helm chart testing
Helm hub
Helm twitter
Helm logo art credit: @flynnduism
Banner image: @bridgetkromhout
2020-04-3039 min
Arrested DevOpsWhat's the Deal With AWS Billing...? With Corey Quinn and Pete CheslockJessica and Matt spend a little time with Corey Quinn and Pete Cheslock of the Duckbill Group to dig into the mysteries of AWS billing, why product names are all terrible, and what exactly is a "cloud economist" anyway?2020-04-2354 min
Arrested DevOpsWebAssembly, Krustlet, and the Future
WebAssembly
WASI
Bytecode Alliance
Krustlet
Kubernetes Rust Kubelet on GitHub
Introducing Krustlet, the WebAssembly Kubelet by Matt Fisher
Kubernetes and waSCC by Brian Ketelsen
waSCC capability that will make your ops folks cry - GitHub link to evil project (don’t install this)
Kubernetes: A Rusty Friendship - Taylor Thomas
WebAssembly meets Kubernetes with Krustlet by Ralph Squillace
2020-04-1442 min
Arrested DevOpsMaking DevOps Beginner-Friendly With Laura SantamariaCheck out A Minute on the Mic for bite-sized videos from experts on various topics!
Laura
Spring Live - March 19
Matt
Failover Conf - April 21
2020-03-1848 min
Hired ThoughtOrganizational Resilience (Matt Stratton)
Legendary DevOps friend Matt Stratton joins Ben for a discussion on the very near and dear topic of organizational trauma. Matt shares important lessons from his experiences, as well as a few secrets to building organizational resilience through incident response. (Content warning: General discussion of trauma.)
Fight, flight or freeze: Releasing organisational trauma (blog)Fight, Flight, or Freeze — Releasing Organizational Trauma (talk)Greater Than Code – Healing Organizational Trauma with Matt StrattonWindow of Tolerance Mindfulness & Trauma Part 2 of 4: The Fight-or-Flight Response Peter Levine on Somatic Experiencing The Fifth DisciplineArrested DevOps 2019 Year-End Wrap-Upspeaking.mattstratton.com
About Matt
Matt S...2020-02-2400 min
Arrested DevOpsWe Are Always Learning With Patrick DeboisReferenced in the show
Patrick discussed his love for continuous learning and referenced some of his favorite books.
The Ironies of Automation is a paper discussing how automation can expand problems rather than eliminate them.
Promise Theory is an approach to coordinating actors and agents in a system about their intentions to each other in the form of promises. The model was originally proposed by Mark Burgess
NoEstimates: How to Measure Project Progress Without Estimating is a 2016 book that explains the “No Estimates” Agile concept.
A trip down memory lane with the very first DevOps Days Ghent back in 2...2020-02-1754 min
Arrested DevOpsLearning Stuff With Ali SpittelMatt chats with Ali Spittel at All Things Open 2019 about all things learning!2019-12-1053 min
Arrested DevOpsDeliveryConfMatty Stratton talks with guests Ken Mugrage and Sasha Rosenbaum about their new event DeliveryConf.2019-10-1434 min
Arrested DevOpsState of Devops 2019In this episode, hosts Jessica Kerr and Matty Stratton are joined by guests Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Mr. Jez Humble, two of the authors of the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps report.
Historical Context
The panel discusses the history and purpose of the report. This is the sixth year it has been produced. How did the report start and what questions is it seeking to answer?
Nicole: “Once upon a time, kids, making software was sad. Making software used to light people on fire!”
Nicole: “So why do we even do this DevOps...2019-09-2652 min
Greater Than Code116: Healing Organizational Trauma with Matt StrattonMatty’s Talk, Fight, Flight, or Freeze — Releasing Organizational Trauma @ REdeploy 2018
02:59 – Matt’s Superpower: Taking metaphors and ideas around self-help and turning them into allegories and analogies of how we could be better at technology
The Five Love Languages of DevOps
The Four Agreements of Incident Response
03:58 – What does healing organizational trauma mean?
05:50 – Incident Response Communication
16:00 – Trust, Hyperarousal, and Hypoarousal; Stuck On or Stuck Off
23:32 – Leading By Example, Not Being in a Rush to Solve Problems, Seeking to Understand, and Encouraging Safety
29:23 – Handling Postmortems: How t...2019-02-0742 min
Arrested DevOpsPunk Rock DevOps With Jay Gordon
What is Developer Advocacy? - Ashley McNamara
Community Pulse podcast
Developer Avocados: The Good Kind Of Fat
The GitHub Memcached DDoS: It shouldn’t have happened
AW.. Sh*t: Amazon S3 borkage takes down GitHub, Yahoo Mail and more
What is devrel anyway?
DevOps Music Playlist
Wolverine Blues - Entombed
Heartwork - Carcass
Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis
You Will Never Be One Of Us - Nails
Highway 101 - Social Distortion
Raining Blood - Slayer
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
Piles of Little Arms - Morbid Angel
Set It Off - Madball
Caboose - Snapcase
Rise Ab...2018-03-1200 min
Arrested DevOpsHot Takes With Charity Majors, Jill Jubinski, and Eric SiglerDefinition of a hot take - “a piece of commentary, typically produced quickly in response to a recent event, whose primary purpose is to attract attention.”
Charity Majors (Honeycomb), Jill Jubinski (Fastly), and Eric Sigler (PagerDuty) sit down with Matt to have some fun with a few great DevOps “hot takes” and talk about what everyone is doing wrong.
Referenced in this episode:
Veteran of the Process Wars by Michael Ducy
Crucial Conversations
Charity’s tweetstorm about on-call
On-Call Doesn’t Have To Suck by Cindy Sridharan
The Five Love Languages of DevOps
DevOpsDays Chicago 2016...2018-02-2600 min
Arrested DevOpsFireside Chat With Andrew Clay ShaferBridget and Matt discuss the past and future of tech with Andrew Clay Shafer.
Previous episodes with Andrew Clay Shafer
Platforms with Kelsey Hightower
Devopsdays MSP 2017 with Bryan Liles & Jess Frazelle
Devopsdays MSP 2016 with Nicole Forsgren, Charity Majors, and James Watters
Devopsdays MSP 2015
GOTO Chicago 2017 with Bryan Cantrill
Referenced in this episode:
Cindy’s post about Everyone is not ops
The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Header image
Guernica by Picasso
Community & Event Stuff
If...2018-02-1000 min
Arrested DevOpsCareer Change Into DevOps With Michael Hedgpeth, Annie Hedgpeth, and Megan BohlWhat is it like to change careers and get into tech later in life? Annie Hedgpeth and Megan Bohl tell their stories.
This episode also features special guest Sonia Gupta!
Referenced in this ep:
Podcast with Annie when she was brand new
Greater Than Code episode with Scott Hanselman
https://www.techtalentsouth.com/
http://devopsjumpstart.org
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf2018-02-0800 min
Arrested DevOps2017 in ReviewMatt, Trevor, Bridget, and Joe discuss 2017.
What were some of your favorite episodes?
Bridget: the GOTO Chicago eps were fun! And I love the 1-1 fireside chats.
Trevor: I enjoyed the Twitter banter around getting the live call show with Dr. Nicole Forsgren going, sad I had to miss it! There’s also a ChefConf episode sitting on my Surface that I just found the charger for!
Matt: The Live call in show with Dr. Nicole Forsgren. Also the recent fireside chat with J. Paul Reed. And the crazy-go-nuts overload show of Windows Stuff.
Joe: Live ep...2018-01-0800 min
Arrested DevOpsFireside Chat With Grandpa Paul
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework
http://theshipshow.com/
Does Humor Belong In Technology
Bryan Berry’s blog post
Live DevOps Call In Show with Dr. Nicole Forsgren
@theitskeptic on Twitter
Wardley mapping introduction and [https://twitter.com/swardley](Simon Wardley’s) free Wardley Mapping book
New York Times article on life at Etsy today
This American Life episode about NUMMI
DOES17 San Francisco - How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day - John Allspaw
The Ship Show - Extinguishing Burnout
Twitter thread about adding release management features to git
Sysadvent Day 3 - 14 Tips for Git Giddiness in 2014
Ma...2017-12-0400 min
Arrested DevOpsDevopsdays Madison 2017 With Emily Freeman, Joshua Zimmerman, & Christian HerroDevopsdays Madison 2017 was the second year for this event. With great speakers, workshops, open spaces, and sponsors, this event brought the community together to learn and share.
Bridget and Matt sat down with a speaker (Emily Freeman) and a couple of organizers (Joshua Zimmerman & Christian Herro) to talk about the wider themes of organizational change when you may not call all the shots in your org.
Emily Freeman’s talk: Scaling Sparta: Military Lessons For Growing A DevOps Team
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see pr...2017-10-3100 min
Arrested DevOpsLive DevOps Call in Show With Nicole ForsgrenFood Fight Show and Arrested DevOps joined forces to host our first live devops call in show! We featured Dr. Nicole Forsgren to answer your DevOps questions about measuring effectiveness, ROI of DevOps initiatives, and more!
Recorded May 8, 2017.
The unofficial title of this episode: “Ya sure, Nicole?”
DORA - DevOps Research and Assessment
This ep on Food Fight Show
Kelsey Hightower’s devopsdays Austin 2017 keynote
Release! The Game
Check outs
Nicole
Velocity San Jose 2017
DOES London
Metrics Workshops
2017 State of DevOps Report
Nell
devopsdays Seattle 2017
The Expanse
Matt2017-08-3000 min
Arrested DevOpsDevopsdays Minneapolis 2017 With Bryan Liles, Jessie Frazelle, and Andrew Clay ShaferBridget and Matt chat about enterprise transformation and open source with guests Bryan Liles, Jessie Frazelle, and Andrew Clay Shafer, in front of a live studio audience at devopsdays Minneapolis 2017.
devopsdays Minneapolis 2017
Sys Admins, DevOps, SRE. Oh My! - Bryan Liles’ opening keynote
Security In A Containerized World - Jessie Frazelle’s closing keynote
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf
Upcoming conferences
Open CFPs...2017-07-2900 min
Arrested DevOpsGo Small or Go Home With Daphne Chong and Kenny BastaniBridget and Matt chat with Daphne Chong (Amazon) and Kenny Bastani (Pivotal).
Daphne’s GOTO Chicago talk: Video Transcoding at the ABC with Microservices
Kenny’s GOTO Chicago talk: In the Eventual Consistency of Succeeding at Microservices
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf
Upcoming conferences
Open CFPs
lots of DevOpsDays
2017-07-0200 min
Arrested DevOpsTupperware Party With Jérôme Petazzoni, Mark Heckler, and Jennifer HecklerBridget and Matt chat with Jérôme Petazzoni (Docker), Mark Heckler (Pivotal), and Jennifer Heckler (Edward Jones).
Mark & Jennifer’s GOTO Chicago talk: Clouds & Containers: Hit the High Points and Give it to Me Straight, What’s the Difference & Why Should I Care?
Jérôme’s GOTO Chicago workshop: Container deployment, scaling, and orchestration with Docker Swarm
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf
Upcoming conferences
O...2017-06-2800 min
Arrested DevOpsRisky Business With Nicole Johnson, Matt Curry, and Anthony LeeBridget and Matt chat with Nicole Johnson (Chef), Matt Curry (Allstate), and Anthony Lee (Allstate).
Nicole’s GOTO Chicago talk: Automating Security & Compliance (for Fun & Profit)
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf
Upcoming conferences
Velocity San Jose - discount code “ADO2017” gives 20% off for Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes.
Open CFPs
lots of DevOpsDays
2017-06-1900 min
Arrested DevOpsWhen the Levee Breaks With Jeff Smith and Mark ImbriacoBridget and Matt chat with Jeff Smith (Centro) and Mark Imbriaco (Pivotal).
Who Owns Your Availability?
Wide Columns, Shaggy Yaks: HBase on EMR
Jeff
Troubleshooting Tiered Tragedy: A Peek Into Failure
DevOps in the Windy City
Mark
Disasters!
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf
Upcoming conferences
Velocity San Jose - discount code “ADO2017” gives 20% off for Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes.
Open CFPs
lots of D...2017-06-0400 min
Arrested DevOpsLet’s Do the Devops Again With Nicole Forsgren & Tim GrossBridget and Matt chat with Nicole Forsgren (DORA) and Tim Gross (Joyent).
Nicole
Be Awesome With DevOps (Through Data!)
State of DevOps Report
Westrum model of organizational culture
Tim
Software-Defined Culture
ContainerPilot
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf
Upcoming conferences
Velocity San Jose - discount code “ADO2017” gives 20% off for Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes.
Open CFPs
lots of DevOpsDays
2017-05-1900 min
Arrested DevOpsOld Geeks Yell at Cloud With Andrew Clay Shafer & Bryan CantrillBridget and Matt chat with Andrew Clay Shafer (Pivotal) and Bryan Cantrill (Joyent).
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf
Upcoming conferences
Velocity San Jose - discount code “ADO2017” gives 20% off for Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes.
Open CFPs
lots of DevOpsDays
2017-05-0800 min
Arrested DevOpsEnterprises With Bryan LilesBridget and Matt chat about devops in a large enterprise with Bryan Liles (Capital One).
Check Outs
Matt:
GFM supports folded details (like, disclosure triangles)
Tables Generator
Hugo plugin for Atom written by me
hub is a cool tool
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf
Upcoming conferences
GOTO Chicago - Matt and Bridget hosting an entire day of Arrested DevOps Live! May 1-2 - $75 off with...2017-04-1700 min
Arrested DevOpsStartups With Charity Majors & Nicole ForsgrenBridget chats about startups with Charity Majors (Honeycomb) and Nicole Forsgren (DORA).
Check Outs
Charity:
Honeycomb has a public announcement/launch on April 11
@goturbine for splitting traffic
also check out buoyant.io
Nicole:
DORA has an ROI white paper coming out soon
State of DevOps Report releases June 7
Book with Jez and Gene; early release is summer/fall
Bridget:
Systems We Love - coming to Minneapolis March 16th!
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can...2017-03-0400 min
Arrested DevOpsMicrosoft Redux With Liam Bennett, Brandon Olin, Reuben Dunn, Glenn Sarti, and Chris HuntDevOps Cafe w/ Jeffery Snover - Linux is docs based, Windows is API based
Check Outs
Liam
James Turnbull Terraform Book
Black Mirror - My latest show to binge watch
Brandon
Infrastructure testing with Pester
Reuben
Paramore, aka Brighter - My goto reference implementation for understanding how to write robust “microservices” that gives you options
https://serilog.net/ & https://getseq.net/ Logging is the “new” debugging…
Phil Haack - Be the scientist
Glenn
neo4j Graph database- Works on Windows too!
Free OReilly ebook on graphdatabases
Flow Perth crea...2017-01-2600 min
Arrested DevOps2016 Year-End ExtravaganzaMatt, Trevor, and Bridget chat (at length) about podcasts, podcast recording, and podcast recording software. Oh, and the highlights of 2016 if they get around to it. (Don’t miss the supercut of all 2016’s cold opens, which was edited by Joe, even though Matt takes credit for it!)
What were some of your favorite episodes?
Bridget: So many great ones! Kicked off the year with Andrew Clay Shafer and Kelsey Hightower, and we kept going at that pace!
Trevor: Soon-to-be-finished Singapore PowerShell Summit Episode
Matt: Personal Brand episode, Who Owns Your Availability (Bridget says “omg, left pad, w...2016-12-3100 min
Arrested DevOpsDevopsdays Sydney 2016Bridget and special guest host Matt Ray of Software Defined Talk chat with Matthew Jones, Lindsay Holmwood, Mick Pollard, and Katie McLaughlin at devopsdays Sydney 2016.
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf
Open CFPs
DevOpsDays Baltimore - closing on Dec 12, 2016
ChefConf 2017 - closing on January 18, 2017
Velocity San Jose until Jan 10th
Monitorama - May 22-24 - CFP opening soon
2016-12-0600 min
Arrested DevOpsChatting With Pauly Comtois
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Little’s Law
Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation (aka “the Drive TED talk”)
The Five Love Languages of DevOps
“As a great conductor, I don’t know how to play every instrument. But I know how they should sound” - Pauly
Pauly is launching a new blog in 2017 at http://www.devopstherapist.com/
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf
Upcoming conferences
For any devo...2016-11-0500 min
Arrested DevOpsDevOps in the Windy City With Jeff Smith, Jerry Cattell, and Sameer Doshi
ADO episode at devopsdays Chicago 2014 with J. Paul Reed
Jerry started his career swapping out computers for Y2K in tropical locations. Nice job to have!
Most sportsball talk on any episode of ADO to date!
“You may not be able to move as fast as others, but that doesn’t mean you have to sit still” - Jeff
Conversations Matt has had with local folks in the past two years have changed from “this will never work at my company” to “ this is really hard, and we aren’t moving as fast as I would like us to be”
1871 - Chicago incuba...2016-10-2400 min
Arrested DevOpsThe Art of Monitoring With James TurnbullDon’t forget to check out the book itself! The Art of Monitoring.
Back in the day, James also wrote a book called Pro Nagios 2.0.
Three stages of monitoring maturity:
Manual, user-initiated, or no monitoring (aka Bridget’s example of “we know things are broken because the customer calls us to complain”)
Reactive
Proactive
“You will eventually get to CPU, memory, and disk, but a lot later after you start with the things you should really care about” - James
“Too much monitoring is binary - this thing either works or it doesn’t”...2016-10-0200 min
Arrested DevOpsDevopsdays Chicago 2016 With Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Jill Jubinski, and Michael StahnkeRecorded live at DevOpsDays Chicago 2016, Matt was joined by Nell Shamrell-Harrington (Chef), Jill Jubinski (IBM), and Michael Stahnke (Puppet). We talked about empathy for recruiters, how the DevOpsDays Chicago event has changed over the years, and how Michael gets all of his DevOps philosophies from 90's slow jams.2016-09-1200 min
Arrested DevOpsOperationalizing Open Source With Michael Hedgpeth and Doug IretonMatt and Bridget chat with Michael Hedgpeth (NCR) and Doug Ireton (1Strategy) about organizations adopting open source.
Checkouts
Michael
DevOps Days DFW on September 15 & 16 - I’ll be speaking
Toyota Kata book
PBS SpaceTime
Doug
Habitat for application automation
Adam Jacob’s DevOps KungFu talk
Bridget
Coté on “the ROI on devops/agile/etc”
BWCA is part of Superior National Forest. The National Park Service is 100 years old this year and National Forests are different than parks!
The West Wing (streaming on Netflix), because it’s election time.
Matt
Wakati...2016-08-3000 min
Arrested DevOpsApplication Configuration With Tim Gross and Adam JacobTim Gross (Joyent) and Adam Jacob (Chef) independently started solving the problem of how to put applications in control of their own configuration. They discuss Habitat and ContainerPilot, to the edification of Matt and Bridget.
Checkouts
Tim
github.com/joyent/containerpilot and example applications at github.com/autopilotpattern
Adam
habitat.sh
Bridget
The Art of Closing - open source maintainer advice from Jessie Frazelle
Badass by Kathy Sierra
Matt
DevOpsDictionary.com - I’m having a bit too much fu...2016-08-0100 min
Arrested DevOpsCareerOps With Jill Jubinski and Peter BurkholderNotes from 2016 DevOps Days DC session on DR for your career: http://e.devopsdaysdc.org/p/openspace-spades-A
Severance agreement timelines:
Employee Checklist: What to Do When Your Employer Offers You a Severance Agreement … Esp:
“If your employer has not given you a reasonable amount of time, or rushes your decision, this is a red flag…If you are being rushed, ask for more time [in writing]”
How to bounce back:
Let folks know - Mike Fiedler and Annie Hedgpeth had good examples on Twitter recently.
Use all your networks
https://www.themuse.com/advi...2016-07-1400 min
Arrested DevOpsFinding Signal in the Noise, With Aneel Lakhani and Jason Dixon
Jason’s Graphite book: Monitoring with Graphite: Tracking Dynamic Host and Application Metrics at Scale
James Turnbull’s Art of Monitoring
Checkouts
Jason - Charity Majors’ recent blog posts about serverless conf, etc
Matt - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh
Community & Event Stuff
If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf
Upcoming conferences
For any devopsdays, try the code ADO2016! It should get you 20% off.
DevOpsDays Silicon Valley June 24, 2016 - June 2...2016-06-0500 min
Arrested DevOpsBuilding Your Personal Brand With Andrea Javor and Michael HedgpethEmpathy is CI For The Soul by David Shackelford
Community Stuff
Upcoming conferences
DevOpsDays Rockies April 21st - 22nd - ADO listeners, save 10% off regular price with the discount code ADO2016
DevOpsDays Atlanta April 26-27 - ADO listeneres, save 20% off regular price with discount code ADO2016
DevOpsDays Seattle May 12-13 - ADO listeners, get 15% off with the discount code ADO2016
Open CFPs
DOD Vancouver and MSP CFP and Abstractions open until March 31
DOD Washington DC open until April 15
DOD Salt Lake City open until April 19
DOD Amsterdam open until May 30
CFP for...2016-03-2300 min
Arrested DevOpsGetting Down With GitLab With Job Van Der VoortRelevant Links
GitLab Operations
GitLab Status Twitter Account
“Because http://GitLab.com has 3 single points of failure we expect the service to be unavailable at some point.”
How GitLab learned to be open
Check Outs
Job
iTerm2, version 3 Beta
relay.fm
Matt
http://10x.engineer/
flowstate - $9.99 in Mac App Store
2016-03-1000 min
Arrested DevOpsOpen Your Stack With JJ Asghar
OpenStack OSOps
Check out this tool library for OpenStack operators
OpenStack-model-t
Using Automation to build an OpenStack Cloud
OpenStack-Chef project
Check Outs
JJ
This War of Mine
Labyrinth Black Ale
Matt
Asphalt 8
2016-02-2600 min
Arrested DevOpsVendors: Frenemies or Friends? With Michael Ducy of the Goat FarmThis was a special co-production with The Goat Farm. Don’t forget to subscribe to their Enterprise DevOps podcast on iTunes or Stitcher!
The Challenger Sale In Less Than 10 Minutes
“To Sell Is Human” - by Daniel Pink
Value Stream Mapping
Check Outs
Michael
“I’ve discovered that tweeting something inflammatory about Docker will give you a really popular tweet.”
Bridget
PetFinder.com - searching for that adoptable pet of your dreams
Trevor
Bryan Fuller co-producing the new Star Trek TV series
posh-git
Matt
git-blame-someone-else
New DreamWorks/Netflix Voltron seri...2016-02-1200 min
Arrested DevOpsOpen Source With Phil Dibowitz
Panel Discussion from ChefConf 2015: Have Your Bets on Open Paid Off?
Moderated by Cade Metz, Wired Magazine
Panelists: Mark Russinovich (Microsoft), Jeff Arcuri (Gap), Phil Dibowitz (Facebook)
Errata: “We’re no longer an airline. We’re a software company with wings.” Matt’s quote at 17:02 was from Alaska Airlines, not United Airlines.
2016-01-2100 min
Arrested DevOps2015 in ReviewEvents
ChefConf (all three hosts were speakers, and we actually were in the same place at the same time!)
DevOpsDays Rockies (Matt was a speaker)
ALM Forum (Matt gave his 5 love languages talk)
DevOpsDays Minneapolis (Bridget was an organizer, Matt did an ignite about @petechesbot)
ThatConference (Matt gave a talk)
DevOpsDays Detroit (Matt gave a couple talks)
Bridget spoke at about 23 events, including oscon, velocity NY and Amsterdam, Chef Conf, QCon, and more. And she’ll be giving a tutorial at oscon in May.
Bridget also went on tour with her team, which was pretty awesome.
Memorable Ep...2015-12-3100 min
Arrested DevOpsWhat Is New at Puppet? With Eric SorensonVarious links referenced in the episode!
PuppetConf 2015 Videos
Why Red Hat Acquired Ansible
DevOps Weekly
puppetlabs-aws
Matt and Eric are pretty sure the only reason that Red Hat acquired Ansible was to get Robyn Bergeron back.
2015-11-2500 min
Arrested DevOpsTest Driven Infrastructure With Arthur Maltson and Michael Goetz
Arthur’s DevOpsDays Toronto talk on TDI
Chef Compliance
InSpec
kitchen-inspec
train
The Road to InSpec
How to F-ck Up Your Configuration Management Adoption… - Sascha Bates
Check Outs
Arthur
tmux-Productive Mouse Free Development
Private Supermarket
Headspace Meditation App
Paulaner Munich Wheat beer
Matt
Teamocil
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series game for iPad
2015-11-1900 min
Arrested DevOpsTis the Season...For Scaling! With Rob Cummings and Matt CurryCheckouts
Rob:
You Are Not So Smart
Margaret Heffernan - Why It’s Time To Forget The Pecking Order At Work
Matt:
Who Owns My Availablity?
Guerrilla Capacity Planning: A Tactical Approach to Planning for Highly Scalable Applications and Services
Bridget:
Bose QuietComfort 20 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones (really work)
Lizone Extra Pro 26000mAh External Battery Charger (charges laptops!)
2015-11-1300 min
Arrested DevOpsITIL Eye for the DevOps Folks With Steven Boyd
Agile Change and Release Management at the #1 Online Rental Site in the US - Matt’s talk about ITIL and Agile
Chef Style DevOps KungFu
Checkouts
Trevor
Yoshi’s Wooly World
2015-10-3100 min
Arrested DevOpsCreating DevOps Communities and Events With Andy Burgin, Dustin Collins, and Nathen HarveyMatt spends the entire episode claiming that Nathen was famous for being on ADO11, when in fact it was ADO14.
Check Outs
Nathen
If you’re at a big conf, find the locals and do a mini meetup onsite
DevOpsDays Podcast
Public post mortems
Andy
charlesproxy.com
John Leech - Nagios Song
TechnologyUG Leeds Event
Dustin
ContainerDays NYC - Oct 29-30 - Docker Docker Docker
Downtown NYC Tech is meeting Oct 28 - Boyd Hemphill/Docker in production
CMXHub - Good articles/videos on community building
Jenkins Job DSL - Conjur re...2015-10-1400 min
Arrested DevOpsInfrastructure as Code With Joshua Timberman, Eric Sorenson, and Robyn BergeronThe Reddit post referenced in the episode:
Having a difficult time wrapping my head around test driven infrastructure
Transcript
Check Outs
Joshua:
Policyfiles! Webinar coming soon, or already happened!
ChefDK 0.8.0, especially if you’re starting to work with Policyfiles
Fat Scotch Ale - Silver City Brewing get it at SEA TAC! :D
Eric:
Dark techno/dnb from Grey Area in the UK
Ansible :) especially people using Ansible in conjunction with puppet and chef - @ me on twitter!
Robyn:
Eric: Lots of those peeps :) I am happy to...2015-10-0100 min
Arrested DevOpsChatOps Extravaganza With Jason Hand, Sasha Rosenbaum, and Peter BurkholderRecording Live from DevOpsDays Chicago!
ChatOps is used by many teams and companies as the main communication tool for day to day chat, and their most important activities. In fact, ChatOps may be taking the place of email in the workplace for internal communication for tech teams as it helps communication during DevOps activities like deploys, code pushes, etc. This episode discusses best practices (if there are any) of ChatOps and how to make sure you are getting the most from your team communication tools.
Asynchronous vs. Synchronous Communication
25% of the work week is...2015-09-1000 min
Arrested DevOpsPodcast Me Maybe With Kyle KingsburyMatt, Trevor, and Bridget catch up with Kyle Kingsbury about his research on failure in distributed systems, lighting rigs controlled by code, consent and representation, and more.
Call Me Maybe: an exploration of failure in distributed systems using the Jepsen tool.
Monitorama 2015 talk on Riemann
Bridget announces that she’s joined Pivotal; Matt claims this is to diversify the podcast so it’s no longer Chef employee, Chef partner, Chef customer.
Community & Events
Lots of open CFPS on devopsdays.org
Chef Community Summit is Oct 14 and 15 in Seat...2015-08-1500 min
Arrested DevOpsEating Sushi With Andrew Clay ShaferTranscript
Andrew Clay Shafer (@littleidea).
Coming to you live from DevOpsDays Minneapolis, Matt and Bridget sit down with Andrew Clay Shafer in front of a live audience to talk about the growth of DevOps, explain some commonly heard but not always understood terms, and more (after a brief detour on why episode numbers on podcasts are obnoxious, and why this episode is titled “Eating Sushi with Andrew Clay Shafer”).
Don’t know who Andrew is? He suggests you Google him, but then goes on to give a little bit of his background: he’s been i...2015-07-1800 min
Arrested DevOpsCareer Devops With Jeff HackertJeff’s background includes 30 years of experience working in people management. Specifically in developing the management skills, and careers of Software Engineering teams. He now works at Chef as the Director of Learning Experiences.
What is Career Development
Just thinking about career development in the workplace is not very common. Jeff discusses statistics around the specifics of Career Development and implementation strategies. For example, in one study, more than 60% of respondents said that Career Development was of “little to no” importance to their current employer. Less than 5% of employees at some organizations surveyed receive any career...2015-06-2500 min
Arrested DevOpsDisasters!Stephanie Van Dyk @sevandyk is an SRE at Google, and has also worked on healthcare.gov.
Mark Imbriaco @markimbriaco is co-founder and CEO of OperableInc. He’s worked previously at DigitalOcean, GitHub, LivingSocial, Heroku, and 37signals.
Bridget starts by asking Mark what Operable is all about. Mark explains that Operable is trying to help people who are on the “pointy end” of incidents. They’re trying to build tools that help people collaboratively fix problems. “There’s a lot of tools these days that do things like wake you up and alert when you when there is a p...2015-05-2900 min
Arrested DevOpsDr. BOFH, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DevOpsChris Read, Kevin Hubbard, and Yvo van Doorn are reformed BOFH’s (Basterd Operator’s From Hell).
Chris is back on the podcast again, this time talking about his expereince as a SysAdmin in past lives.
Kevin is currently the DevOps Engineer for BCycle at Trek Bicycle Corporation, and was a SysAdmin for 15+ years.
Yvo previously worked at classmates.com and McGraw Hill Corporation as a SysAdmin, and is now at Chef Software.
Before we get started, you’ll need to understand the origin story of BOFH. There were stories posted on Use...2015-05-1500 min
Arrested DevOpsDevOps and MarketingShannon Smith is the marketing manager for 10th Magnitude, a consulting firm based in Chicago. She’s a self-described “liberal arts nerd” and fell into the tech world through her job at 10th Magnitude. She has a love for well-crafted sentences, song parodies, and general cleverness, which has translated into a love for marketing and the challenges that come with getting an effective message delivered to the “great abyss.”
Jason Hand is a DevOps Evangelist at VictorOps. He’s been in the IT space since college, but it wasn’t until joining VictorOps that he’s ventured into a wider rol...2015-04-3000 min
Arrested DevOpsWhat's New at Chef?Seth Falcon is the Engineering General Manager for Chef Delivery.
Julian Dunn is the Product Manager for Chef Analytics.
Adam Edwards is the Engineering General Manager for the main Chef product.
Matt, Trevor, and Bridget gather at the Chef Newsroom at ChefConf 2015 to talk about the latest and greatest developments at Chef. They are joined by Seth Falcon, Julian Dunn, and Adam Edwards.
One of the biggest announcements at ChefConf 2015 was Chef Delivery. Matt asks what is Chef Delivery, and why is it interesting?
“Chef Delivery is a solution fo...2015-04-1700 min
Arrested DevOpsDevOps Culture Change With Bill JoyHow to Change the Culture of an Organization
“Change management rests with the how” – Bill Joy
DevOps revolves a lot around what an organization and culture should look like. We talk about it on just about every episode of this podcast. Something we tend to skate around though is the how. How do you change the culture of an organization?
Matt got to sit down and have an incredible conversation with Bill Joy of the Joy Group about the how of influencing change. We didn’t talk about what changes companies needed to make, we talked a...2015-04-0100 min
Arrested DevOpsStarting a New Devops JobTonight’s episode featured a special guest host, Julian Dunn of Chef.
Our panel:
Ryn Daniels - @rynchantress - a web operations engineer from Etsy.
Jake Champlin - @grubernaut - an operations engineer from Minted. (Younger than Trevor!)
Matt asks Ryn what it was like going to a place like Etsy - the gold standard! - what they expected, and what it was like when they got there. Ryn says that years of reading codeascraft and seeing etsy engineers speak at conferences meant that they were excited to start but also felt a little impostory. “Ever...2015-03-1400 min
Arrested DevOpsDocker! Docker! Docker!James Turnbull describes Docker as “a solution that is built by people to be usable by people, as opposed to some of the previous containerized solutions which were built by engineers to be usable by a very small subset of other engineers”.
When you might want to fly less… “when you start to recognize the airport lounge staff and the flight attendants on the New York-San Francisco route and they start to recognize you.”
James wrote The Docker Book to allow people of varying skill levels to quickly understand how to use Docker and what the practi...2015-02-2700 min
Arrested DevOpsDevOps in a Microsoft World With Jessica DeVita and Jeffrey SnoverWhat are some of the challenges traditional Microsoft IT Pro’s deal with moving to a more automated DevOps pattern?
Jessica:
Hard to tell which tools are really going to make their lives easier.
Are the cultures of the companies benefiting the human side of the IT Pro?
Jeffrey:
Because Microsoft has great GUI tools, they become the biggest strength and weakness of the DevOps/IT-Pro
The process of using a GUI is much harder to replicate in documentation. Because most of the community uses powershell commands, Microsoft IT-Pros really need to get on board.
IT-Pros are never do...2015-02-1300 min
Arrested DevOpsHiring in a Post-DevOps WorldTranscript
Check-Outs
Jill
Beer: http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/45/680/
Newest obsession: Rowing class: http://www.cityrow.com/ (there are probably many others outside of NYC)
Josh
I’m officially the SysAdmin for Caustic Soda, which is a podcast about horrible things. It’s like Mythbuster for all that is gross and horrible. Now that I think about it, I can’t recommend it.
Influxdb is an open-source, distributed, time series database with no external dependencies. Currently in Alpha (v0.8.8) it's going through a major refactor, the "production ready" version v0.9.0 is due ou...2015-01-2300 min
Arrested DevOpsA Year of ADOIt’s been a year of ADO, with topics from CI to security, panels of devs and of ops, and even Pete Cheslock. For the last episode of the year, we thought it would be fun to revisit Matt and Trevor chatting, sans guests - which hasn't happened since the first episode!2015-01-0100 min
Arrested DevOpsThe Database: The Elephant in the RoomData - we can’t have applications or services without it. If software is eating the world, then data is the maitre’d. However, it can be challenging to incorporate database design and release into the world of continuous delivery and devops. Grant Fritchey and Jonathan Hickford of Redgate join Matt and Trevor for a discussion of DevOps and Databases.2014-12-0900 min
Arrested DevOpsDevOps in the EnterpriseTranscript
Checkouts
Ducy
The Goat Farm podcast
Ross
All the great talks from the Enterprise DevOps Summit, DOES14
Target Tech Blog (post on flashbuilds)
Steve
ALL THE TWEETS!
Debian snapshots
Amazon Lambda/CodeDeploy/Containers (in case it’s not covered in the AWS recap)
My recap doc of DOES14, pretty rough but shareable
Bridget
devopsdays.org - for a devops near you, or to be inspired by talks at past ones so you can hold one inside your org
Lots of great talks last week at DevOpsDays Vancouver, an...2014-11-1900 min
Arrested DevOpsGit 101 With Emma Jane WestbyMicrosoft is open-sourcing .NET and creating the CLR for Mac and Linux
.Net core5 is the new framework for 5, you can ship your own version of the app.
There is now a free version of Visual Studio — Visual Studio Community for open source developers and students.
In fact, it is all happening out in the open on github.
Emma Jane is a long time listener of ADO! She has been teaching version control for many years with specific emphasis on the communication behind version control in teams. She has since switched to distributed version control su...2014-11-1358 min
Arrested DevOpsManaging Systems in the CloudCheck Outs
Tom
Stack Exchange is open sourcing its monitoring system called “Bosun”. Look for the presentation at Usenix LISA http://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/conference-program/presentation/brandt
Matt
pester busser for test kitchen by Jay Mundrawala (discussed in Matt Wrock’s post which I will link to because it is a long url)
Riffsy ios8 keyboard for animated gifs
Trevor
http://www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/programming/the-great-unicorn-hunt/
Borderlands the Pre-Sequel is out :D
2014-10-1549 min
Arrested DevOpsDevopsdays ChicagoRecorded on Day 2 of DevOpsDays Chicago. Matt and Trevor are joined by a panel of attendees and organizers to talk about their experiences at the first ever DevOpsDays to take place in the Windy City. #deepdishdevops for everyone!2014-10-0939 min
Arrested DevOpsConference Love
What was the first tech conference you attended?
What are things you get from a conference that you cannot learn other ways?
How can I maximize my value out of attending a conference?
If I’m going to a conference where I don’t know anyone, how can I still have a good time?
You both have planned conferences. What are some of the things that go into organizing that people might not be aware of?
What is your favorite conference story?
How do you learn about new events to attend?
How do you pick which events you know about to g...2014-09-2457 min
Arrested DevOpsSomething About Security With Ben Hughes
What exactly do you security folks do all day?
So let's talk about ZOMG SCARY CLOUDS
I'm a developer. What do I need to know to help me be pals with InfoSec?
Ops people know security, right? Or not?
Common security mistakes/misconceptions
How can InfoSec be better buddies with other functions?
Are you tired of Matt calling it "InfoSec"? Does it remind you of Information Society?
Check Outs
Matt
zsh and oh my zsh - http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
zmojii plugin
all of the chef 12 things!
st. tom waits prayer candle - http://www.e...2014-09-1056 min
Arrested DevOpsDev to OpsYou Suck at Technical Interviews
John Vincent - DevOps The Title Match
Learn Linux
Check Outs
Nate
[ConEmu](http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/) (Console Emulator):
John
[Nueske’s slab bacon](http://www.nueskes.com/shop-by-department/smoked-bacon.aspx)
Aaron
Jez Humble’s [ChefConf talk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX8af9kLhlk)
Trevor
[TeamCity](http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/)
Encourage extension Visual Studio
Matt
[Lumosity Mobile](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lumosity-mobile/id577232024?mt=8)
2014-08-2952 min
Arrested DevOpsThe Sysadmin ShowWhat exactly does it mean to be a sysadmin? How do you define “sysadmin”?
What is your favorite thing about devops? How does it change your life as a sysadmin?
Matt has a belief that sysadmins are inherently cynical. Is he an idiot?
What do you miss about “the good old days?”
Alex Howells asks: “How often do you think ‘Fuck it all, I’m going to be a plumber or electrician?’"
Video of guys changing tires while car is on two wheels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WLwRg3erm4
2014-08-211h 05
Arrested DevOpsHelp! I Need Somebody
The Ship Show - Asked and Answered: http://theshipshow.com/2013/04/asked-answered/
Sascha Bates - Whip it Good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Fcb_MCzY0
The Help Vampire Problem http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19665/the-help-vampire-problem
Rubber Duck Debugging - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Rubber Duck Problem Solving - http://blog.codinghorror.com/rubber-duck-problem-solving/
Check Outs
Matt
Chef Meetup - Testing Cookbooks and Chef Hack day (aug 19) http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Chef-User-Group/events/193996782/
Scroll Down To Riker http://scrolldowntoriker.com
Registration is open for Chef Community Summit https://www.arresteddevops.com/chefcommunity
2014-08-0551 min
Arrested DevOpsDevOpsDays MinneapolisMatt was joined by guest co-host Julian Dunn, as well as some awesome panelists for an on-site recording of ADO at the very first DevOpsDays Minneapolis!2014-07-1848 min
Arrested DevOpsHow to Eff Up DevopsTranscript
What are some common misconceptions about what DevOps is?
What are some symptoms of "DevOps Smell"[1]?
Development Operations vs Dev + Ops
Is it really just about culture?
Can the opinions of a tool help drive the culture? This is a theory Matt is marinating upon, and might be totally wrong.
How can we avoid the "echo chamber" of DevOps discussion?
Pete
Ansible
Nathen
Remap your CAPS LOCK key as Ctrl key. Also new Supermarket site for Chef - supermarket.getchef.com
Randi
Anything BUT Jenkins.
Trevor
A little bit...2014-07-0759 min
Arrested DevOpsSoftware DeploymentWhat is software delivery? There are a lot of approaches to this subject- what does “software delivery” mean at PagerDuty?
What is your idea of “best” way to deliver software, or line of best fit?
What gets in the way of companies or individuals delivering software?
-How do you mitigate and test for problems introduced by code changes?
-Deployments?
-Dependency issues?
-External factors?
What are some patterns and anti-patterns for consistent software delivery?
On system rollback and totalised fields by Mark Burgess
Checkouts
Ranjib
Universa...2014-06-2346 min
Arrested DevOpsMaking the DevOps TransitionAgenda
What problems were you trying to solve?
How did you (or will you) know when you are “happy”?
What resistance did you encounter?
What worked REALLY well?
What worked less well?
How Boeing merges its data centers with the Amazon and Microsoft clouds
Check-Outs
Chris
Bands in Town
Jeanne
Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment: How to Improve Quality, Productivity, and Employee Satisfaction
The Night Circus
Trevor
OxDBE Jetbrains tools
Chrome dev tools - change css media state
Matt
Pragmatic Programming book tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development
Burnout.io
2014-06-1144 min
Arrested DevOpsDevOps at Etsy: Not a Unicorn, Just a Sparkly Horse
Episode 11: Etsy Examined - How the Best Do Their Business by Food Fight
BOFH (the Bastard Operator From Hell)
Check Outs
Jon Cowie
dmg cookbook
rbenv cookbook
David Yurkiewicz
Pushover.net
Pete Bellisano
Buffalo Trace whiskey
John Allspaw
Lloyd Taylor "Hacking Your Organization"
Trevor
Shortcut-Fu
Agents of Shield
Matt
Vimium - Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor
Release! The Game
2014-05-2157 min
Arrested DevOpsScaling the Application MountainsIn today's world of web-scale IT, the ability to respond quickly to increased demand and traffic on your critical applications is an essential component of success. Scaling experts Steven Corona and Igor Papirov join Matt and Trevor to talk about why scaling matters, some good practices to keep in mind, and other tips and tricks for success in the dynamic world of modern applications.2014-05-0851 min
Arrested DevOpsFast and Furious: Configuration DriftOne of the key technologies to help automate your DevOps environment is Configuration Management. There's a lot of chatter around what exactly this means, and how you can use it. Special panel guests Sean OMeara, Chris Webber, and Steven Murawksi join Matt and Trevor to talk about how Config Management can make your systems and stack more stable, predictable, and more fun to manage.2014-03-291h 05
Arrested DevOpsManaging Your Mental Stack
Matt’s popular blog post - Configuring SharePoint 2010 Search in a one-way trust scenario
Food Fight - Episode 36: Roles, Environments, Attributes, and Data Bags
The Goal by Elliot Goldratt
Flipboard
Pocket
Pomodoro
Vitamin-R
Check-Outs
Matt
Vagrant 1.5
QuizUp
Trevor
.NET Fiddle
Air Disasters
One-Wipe Charlies
Sasha
Visual Studio Web Essentials 2013
Self Promotion for Introverts
The Little Prince
2014-03-111h 01
Arrested DevOpsAll Together NowCheck-Outs
Angela
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
SockDreams - @SockDreams and www.sockdreams.com
Todd
Best BBQ chicken receipt in the world on http://www.thepauperedchef.com/ : http://bit.ly/1chcmHQ
Aberdeen report on DataCenter Downtime: How Much Does it Really Cost, free to download here: http://bit.ly/Mpd2E0
Matt
Meez - Setup tool for Chef authoring
Downtown Chicago Azure Meetup - Feb 27, 2013
2014-02-231h 00
Arrested DevOpsDevOps MythbustersMyths!
The intro
You’re either DevOps or you’re not
The Company
Management Beliefs
DevOps only works for startups or web companies.
DevOps doesn’t scale.
You can’t do DevOps without being Agile
Business Semantics
Shops practicing DevOps should have a DevOps team.
We can’t do DevOps because we need separation of duties.
The Team
Operations Assumptions
DevOps means “developers do operations work”
A DevOps is a sysadmin that uses config mgmt.
DevOps is about hiring sysadmins who code.
Developer Expectations
DevOps means develope...2014-02-101h 06
Arrested DevOpsContinuous Integration – CI Told You So!Retro
Matt
Matt hates Subversion.
Trevor
Trever attended a Chef training class and is super excited about it. Even though he only learned how to make it configure Linux machines.
User Stories
This is a new section of the podcast where we introduce a new topic in just a couple sentences. This episode's "requirement" is Configuration Management.
Want to learn more about Configuration Management? Check out The Food Fight Show podcast!
Outline
Overview of CI
What about feature branches?
What is the difference between using a CI tool f...2014-01-2957 min
Arrested DevOpsAgile and DevopsCheck-Outs
Matt
Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel: Volume One
Trevor
Helix - TV show produced by Ronald D. Moore
Len
Si Alhir's blog
Conscious Agility
Patrick
Agile Board Hacks
Disciplined Agile
Writing Effective Use Cases
Castle
Chicago Fire
Chicago PD
Investigation Discovery
2014-01-031h 07
Arrested DevOpsThe Dev ShowRetro
Trevor completed another revolution around the sun. Got Chromecasts for some family members. He was really impressed with how easily it interfaced with their other devices. Matt celebrated the holidays and got a lot of Doctor Who stuff, including a new Sonic Screwdriver that his 4 year old sons are obsessed with. He also got the first part of his new tattoo done. And lots of PowerShell, cloud, and DevOps.
Outline/Questions
David discovers that his particular model of servers in his home lab are suspect to the NSA “DEITYBOUNCE” exploit. Discuss why is it necessary to l...2014-01-0255 min
Arrested DevOpsDoes Testing Keep You From Making a Huge Mistake?Things get off to a great start during the retro, where Trevor complains about destroying his USB 3.0 drivers due to a Win 8.1 upgrade and Matt turns into a Cylon.
Test Kitchen is now officially 1.0, but does’t really support Windows, but that doesn’t stop Matt from wanting to hack it to make it work anyway.
“Testing is any action taken to give you information about the actual state of your software, vs your assumptions” – Lanette
“A lot of developers look at testing like insurance – it’s not going to prevent a disaster, but it’s going t...2013-12-161h 07
Arrested DevOpsWhat Is DevOps?DevOps – the Title Match – John Vincent’ blog post about what DevOps is and isn’t, that Matt totally read from and referred to.
Food Fight Show – The Podcast where DevOps chefs do battle. These guys totally watched this live. Which is more than I can say for The Ship Show. Just kidding.
Check Outs
Matt
Ender’s Game
High West Whiskey Campfire
Trevor
Saints Row
2013-12-0637 min